Baby Steps to Facebook Pages

Social media and web marketing can make us unsteady on our feet when we are first learning internet business marketing tools. Hesitantly, we pull ourselves up to the nearest social networking site and step into the unknown.

Many of my clients are self-described newbies at web marketing and social media.

It is now time for me to baby step into the new forms of social media & web marketing that are out there. I currently  do not text , Facebook, Tweet , use an i-Pod or know how to take pictures (on purpose) with my cell phone. I tried—unsuccessfully—to set up a business page.

Social media is easier to master when someone walks beside you.

1. Include the link to your Facebook page and profile when you send newsletters. Your email below forces me to go to Facebook and look for you. Most people will not take that extra step.
2. Get a custom username. This is the link to your Facebook page:
   http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Marietta-GA/Marietta-wxyz-abcfde/129897743722015?ref=ts
   Not exactly what you want to see in your newsletter, is it?

   When you reach the magic number of 25 people liking your page,  go to Facebook.com/username

   • Look beneath the peach colored box for ‘Set a username for your pages’ and click the blue link.
   • Search availability for Mariettawxyzabcfde as your username. You can’t use spaces and you can’t change the name, even if you spell something wrong.
   • When you go through this process you can easily tell people your Facebook page is Facebook.com/Mariettaawxyzabcfde instead of the original ugly link.
3. Look for people you know on Facebook and invite them to be your friend. People who know and love you and your business will gladly Like your page. So, go to your page. Look under your picture for ‘Suggest to Friends’ and click. All your friends will pop-up in a box. Click the ones you want to Like your page and submit. Facebook sends a note to all those people to let them know you have a page. Yay!
4. Write on your Facebook page. These updates will appear when people who Like the page login to their accounts. Be social, not sales oriented. Write tips, news, events, discounts that will be valuable to your readers.

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